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G. MORGAN, E. J. WATSONX: HJW, WILLSON.

WATCH SPRING HOLDER.

No. 308,320 I V Patented Nov. 18, 1884 N, PETERS Phommm n mr. Washinglnm D a iiNrrn STATES ATENT FFiCE.

CHARLES H. MORGAN, EDWIN J. VATSON, AND HORACE V. TVILLSON, OF YVORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO THE XVASHBURN & MOEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WATCH-SPRING HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,320, dated November 18, 1884.

'Applieation filed February 1, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES H. llIORGAN, EDWIN J .WA'rsoN, and HORACE W.WrLLsoN, all of Worcester, in the county of 'Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Combined Shipping-Tag and Holder for atch and Similar Springs; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 represents a front side view, Fig. 2 an edge view, and Fig. 8 a back side View,

ofa watch-spring coiled up, with our aforesaid holder and shipping-tag applied thereto, as hereinafter more fully described, Fig.1 being a view looking in the direction indicated by arrow a; Figs. 2 and 3 looking in the directionoi'arrow 1), same figure. Fig. 4 represents a similar view to that shown in Fig. 3, with the outer end of the spring shown disengaged from the holder to admit of gaging said spring, as hereinafter described; and Figs. 5, 6, 7, and

8 represent different detailed views of our device, which will also be hereinafter more fully described.

Prior to our invention watch-springs have ordinarily been put up for the market by 0 simply surrounding the coiled spring with a wire having its ends twisted together. This mode of fastening is insecure, and has other obvious disadvantages. It is necessary that the spring should be firmly held from uncoiling, to which it has a strong tendency, being coiled, for sake of compactness, very tightly. It is further desirable that the holder be so constructed as to permit the ready removal of the spring therefrom and its replacement 0 when desired, and that convenient means be provided for holding a tag or label to show the size, length, &e.. of the spring inclosed.

F The present invention is designed to accomplish these objects in a simple and effectual 5 manner.

The holder consists of a circular plate having about the same diameter as the spring when coiled, and provided with a suitable number of arms projecting beyond the periphery of the plate and in one piece therewith. The label or tag is a circular disk of substantially the diameter of said plate, and is held under the same, the interior part of the plate being cut away to expose the marks on the disk. The spring, tightly coiled, is 5 placed in the holder upon the disk or label, and the holding-arms (which are of flexible metal) are bent over and around it, securely retaining it within the holder, but at the same time permitting it to be readily removed there- 66 from whenever desired. When tags or labels are simply tied to each spring by a cord, they take up space, are liable to become entangled together, and to be detached and lost. By

. this improvement the disk bearing the desig- 6 hating-marks of the spring is securely held in place in the holder, of which it constitutes an important part.

The holder may be reused many times.

To enable those skilled in the art to which 0 our invention belongs to make and use the same, we will proceed to describe it more in detail.

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary coiled watchspring; B. our metal holder, and 7 C the shipping-tag, which is placed between the spring and its holder. The holder B is first stamped or otherwise cut out, in the form shown in Fig. 5 ot' the drawings, from any thin flexible metal, and at the same time or by a .separate operation the firm or corporation name or any other marks or designs may be stamped or otherwise designated upon the face of the holder around the circular opening 0. formed in the center of the same, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 6.

Af:er the holder has been cut out, as before described, and shown 'in Fig. 5, it is then pressed or stamped into the shape shown in Figs. 6 and 7, ready to be applied to the coiled spring. by bending the ends d, so as to encircle and hold the coil firmly in position, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

Previous to placing the coiled spring in the holder shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the tag C is placed therein against the inner face of said holder, and is there held by the spring when placed over it and fastened in position, as before described. The circular tagO serves two purposes-one of assisting to hold the spring in its proper position when fastened in the holder B, and the other to admit of each spring being labeled preparatory to shipment by the firm or corporation manufacturing and selling the same. Upon the center of the tag, within the radius of the circular opening a, formed in the holder, may be printed, stamped, or otherwise designated, the width, 1ength,weight,&c., of the spring, if desired, or any other marks or designs which would be convenient to be used upon the same, or which the manufacturer might desire to have placed there, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 8 of the drawings.

In practice we prefer to use card or paste board for the labeling-tags G, and print upon the same what is desired to be designated upon them; but, ifdesired, they may be made of metal or any other suitable materials, and imprinted, stamped, or cut out upon the same, instead of printed.

The holding-arms (Z of the holder 13 may be bent around the spring-coil to hold the same by hand or by suitable automatic mechanism designed for the purpose.

When it is desired at any time to apply a gage to the spring to ascertain its size, if not labeled, or to ascertain if its sizes are labeled correctly, its outer end maybe disengaged, so

that the gage may be applied to it by simply 1 bending back the arm (1, coming over the end, as shown in Fig. 4. of the drawings, and then i back again after the operation by hand, the 1 The holder 13 may be used for holding a.

spring without the labeling-tag O, and said holder may also be used with aplain face, instead of being marked, as before described, if

preferred, without departing from the principle of our invention.

Having, described our combined shipping tag and holder for watch and similar springs, what we claim therein as new and of our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combined spring and tag-holder, cou1- prising a circular plate and holding-arms in one piece therewith, said plate being cut away in the middle to expose a label beneath, substantially as described.

OI-IAS. H. MORGAN. EDWIN J. YVATSON. HORACE V. \VILLSON. lVitnesses:

HARRY A. XVIL ARD, ALBERT A. BARKER. 

